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A fully supported version of the HTML5 client is released with vSphere 6.5, and the official name will be vSphere Client. We won't be renaming this Fling, but may start saying things like 'vSphere Client Fling' in addition to the other terms we've used before. Fling features are not guaranteed to be implemented into the product.

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A fully supported version of the HTML5 client is released with vSphere 6.5, and the official name will be vSphere Client. We won't be renaming this Fling, but may start saying things like 'vSphere Client Fling' in addition to the other terms we've used before. Fling features are not guaranteed to be implemented into the product.

The vSphere HTML Client SDK Fling provides libraries, sample plug-ins, documentation and
various SDK tools to help you develop and build user interface extensions which are compatible with
both vSphere Client (HTML5) and vSphere Web Client. The HTML Client SDK Fling is based on the
existing HTML Bridge APIs which allows already existing HTML Bridge plug-ins functionality to be fully
supported in the new vSphere Client (HTML5). You can use the HTML Client SDK Fling to extend existing
HTML Bridge plug-ins or build pure HTML5 plug-ins from scratch and test them in the vSphere Client
(HTML5).

We will continue delivering this Fling on a regular basis even with the released supported version of the vSphere Client, so we hope that most of you will continue to use the Fling and update it weekly so that we can get your feedback about our direction.

You can find a summary of changes in all the clients available in vSphere 6.5 in this blog post – What's new in vSphere 6.5: vCenter management clients. In the blog, you can also find a link to all the features that are not available in the GA version of the vSphere Client and link to frequently asked questions on all the vSphere Clients.

We would also like to thank all of you that have tried the Fling and have provided us feedback, we would not have achieved the progress we have without your engagement.

For partners who want to extend the HTML Client, this Fling also includes a new HTML SDK and a tool to generate plug-ins. Please see the HTML Client SDK Fling Overview.pdf and download the html-client-sdk.zip and plugin-seed.zip.

Known Issues

On occasion you may see the following error popup: “An error occurred……See more details in the browser’s javascript console”. This is to help us debug the UI. If this occurs repeatedly, please use the Feedback tool to send us any information you have, including your environment, object, and a description of what you did to reproduce the error.

Linux will show a warning on the login page about being unsupported, but the Fling should still work after login

Bug: If the client page is visited before the server has fully started, sometimes the strings do not load and you will see things like “summaryView.guestFullName” in views or in action menus. Refreshing the page may fix this, but restarting the appliance server with: “/etc/init.d/vsphere-client restart” should definitely fix it.

The new visual theme is called “Clarity”, and is also still in development. We will be fixing UI bugs and subtly changing the look and feel to fit the new Clarity standard.

The appliance requirements are recommended settings. It should still work at lower settings, but performance may be impacted.

The root password on the appliance is ‘demova’ (without quotes). If you enter the wrong password too many times you will get locked out. The easiest way to fix this is to redeploy the appliance from the OVA.

A fully supported version of the HTML5 client is released with vSphere 6.5, and the official name will be vSphere Client. We won't be renaming this Fling, but may start saying things like 'vSphere Client Fling' in addition to the other terms we've used before. Fling features are not guaranteed to be implemented into the product.

2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 14 GB

An existing VC (version 6.0 or 6.5) installation (VCSA or Windows). The H5 client appliance will need 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs and the hard disk will grow up to 14 GB.

Recommended browsers: Chrome, Firefox, IE11 and Microsoft Edge. Others may work, with some functional or layout issues. Windows vCenter: Was tested with a vCenter on Windows Server 2012 R2, but should work with other versions as well. Please report any issues.

A fully supported version of the HTML5 client is released with vSphere 6.5, and the official name will be vSphere Client. We won't be renaming this Fling, but may start saying things like 'vSphere Client Fling' in addition to the other terms we've used before. Fling features are not guaranteed to be implemented into the product.

A fully supported version of the HTML5 client is released with vSphere 6.5, and the official name will be vSphere Client. We won't be renaming this Fling, but may start saying things like 'vSphere Client Fling' in addition to the other terms we've used before. Fling features are not guaranteed to be implemented into the product.

Fling 4.0 - Build 11785236

- New Features

Support for VC 6.7

ESX Agent Manager UI

MxN Convergence in System Configuration

Import Certificate and Generate CSR

Code Capture: the record button can be toggled between hidden and shown.

System configuration displays the summary of vCenter (multiple vCenters in case of linked mode) and PSC node (in case of external PSC) and also show them as links. Clicking on these links will open the VAMI UI for these nodes.

Update content library item

Clone vApp to a vApp template in content library

New vApp from a vApp template in content library

Improvements

If there are multiple vCenter servers in vSphere Client connected using linked mode, then certain operations like Deploy OVF across different vCenters will result in a certificate warning asking users to open the vSphere Client for the different vCenter than the one you are using. This warning dialog is updated to give the URL of the vCenter server as a link (Refer this reddit post for reported issue)

Bug fixes

Performance fix for loading actions menu when fling appliance is pointed to a 6.5 vCenter with external PSC

Known Issues

Dark theme might not render well for certain areas of the client. One such known area is for any VMware or partner plugins which are already ported over to HTML5 client. Give us feedback using feedback tool if you notice any areas which does not render well in dark mode.

Fling 3.41 - Build 9687895

New Features

Code capture: record interaction performed in the current session against the vCenter API, and generate an equivalent script.

To start recording, click "Start recording" on the "Code Capture" page, or the record button in the header.

Subsequent operations done in this session will be recorded. To stop recording, click the Stop button, and the recorded operations will be generated as a script. PowerCLI is the only supported language for the moment.

To disable code capture for all users, append the line "codecapture.disabled=true" to /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vsphere-client/webclient.properties on the fling appliance and restart the vSphere Client server from FAMI UI

Known Issues

If you have registered the fling appliance to a vCenter which is in an enhanced linked mode configuration with an external PSC and is on version 6.5, there is a known issue around the slow performance of dialogs via action menu. Refer this bug for the workaround - #268. We are working on fixing this.

Fling 3.40 - Build 9292689

New Features

Host profiles

Check compliance

Pre-check and remediate host (known issue exists - see known issues)

Extract, edit host profile

Host profile favorites management (vCenter 6.5)

Copy settings between profiles (vCenter 6.5)

Known Issues

Host profiles: when running against vCenter 6.0, remediating a host may not start if pre-check indicates that entering maintenance mode is required.

Fling 3.39 - Build 8835608

New Features

All the features of Auto Deploy (when compared with the vSphere Web Client)

Software Depots

Deploy Rules

Deployed Hosts

Discovered Hosts

Configure (Auto-Deploy configuration)

Script Bundles support for Auto-Deploy (Available only in the vSphere Client)

Script Bundles view where all bundles are listed

Ability to Upload a script bundle

Ability to Add/Edit deploy rules with script bundles

New virtual switches view on a host which includes topology diagrams for standard and host proxy switches

Warn when about to perform an operation on VM template(s) managed by a solution

Bug Fixes

SSO authentication error during accessing the vSphere Client from the fling appliance is resolved

Fling 3.35 - Build 7914771

Improvements

UI improvements on Quick search including

Search dropdown design is changed to show the top 10 results

View all results page design is modified to show grouping in the object navigator and the results in the right pane

UI improvements in grouping of hard disks in Edit Settings and VM Summary. If there are more than 4 harddisks for a VM, you will see them grouped in Edit settings. This enhancements will improve the performance of the VM Edit Settings.

Fling 3.34 - Build 7758187

New Features

Distributed switch topology diagram

Batch creation of VMkernel network adapters on a distributed port group

Assign License action on the License Assets tabs

Notification message for expiring VC licenses

Edit vApp settings

Enable and edit vApp options on a VM

Move networks and distributed switches to network folders

Improvements

Batch assignment of physical network adapters to uplinks in “Add and Manage Hosts” wizard on a distributed switch

Batch assignment of VMkernel network adapters to port groups in “Add and Manage Hosts” wizard on a distributed switch

Display of addiitonal information like Power State and Quiesce/memory information for VM Snapshots

Bug Fixes

Create a child vApp workflow is fixed

Known Issues

Some parts of the UI can accept special characters in the name field (Ex: Tag name). If these special characters happens to be a HTML language code snippet (ex: alert), then you will notice those behavior on the client experience

Fling 3.33 - Build 7616394

New Features

Support for PCI and Shared PCI devices for a VM

Create vApp wizard

Clone vApp wizard

vApp move to Host & Cluster

Duplicate a VM customization specification to another VC and with custom name/description

Synchronize Licenses action (former Import License Keys Data)

Assets’ details

Ability to edit VM Advanced configurations in Edit Settings of the VM

Change the shortcuts for Power Operations in VMware tools section in the Edit Settings of the VM

Change the maximum concurrent VMRC sessions for a VM in the Edit Settings

Bug Fixes

Can add an existing hard disk in Edit Settings for VM residing on datastore cluster

Known Issues

Creation of child vApp wizard is not working - the workaround is to create a child vApp as separate vApp and use move to operation to move it under the parent one.

Fling 3.32 - Build 7496117

New Features

vApp power operations

vApp move to operation to folder operation

vApp rename operation

vApp delete operation

vApp export to OVF template

Improvements

vApp related VMs tab, datatastore tab and networking

Add Permission action on VM templates

Fling 3.31 - Build 7343373

New Features

Performance charts counter selection can be persisted. The counter selection are persisted per object type. The data is persisted in browser local storage.

Fling 3.29 - Build 7157335

Configure the policies of distributed port groups inside the New Distributed Port Group wizard

Bug Fixes

Fixed an error when trying to edit the settings of VMs with failed installation or update of the VM tools

Fling 3.28 - Build 7110681

New Features

Configure advanced CPU Identification Mask

Select PVRDMA adapter type for a VM network

Improvements

Thanks to the fling users who gave the steps to replace the certificates for FAMI UI running at port 5490, added these instructions to v4 of "Create a new certificate for a HTML5 client fling" document

Bug Fixes

Licensing views should be visible for 6.0 VC/PSCs

Fling 3.27 - Build 7055108

New Features

Popout the Datastore File browser

License Details

View License VC assets (Read-only)

Improvements

Set license name in the Add License workflow

Known Issues

License UI might not work against 6.0 VCs, in particular Windows VCs/PSCs.

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

Fling 3.26 - Build 6984758

New Features

License Products Details

Add New License action

Improvements

Enhanced the performance of the Datastore File Browser

Known Issues

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

Fling 3.25 - Build 6929189

New Features

Edit the properties and policies of distributed ports

Licenses list

License Products list (Read-only)

Rename and Remove License action

You can now deploy VM from a VM template by choosing New VM wizard > Deploy from template > Data center tab

Improvements

Rescan storage action is done in parallel when is executed on Cluster or Datacenter level

Showing the number of pending upload sessions and size uploaded in Datastore File Browser

Bug Fixes

Template icon missing issue is resolved

After creating some Tags or accessing the Content Library and leaving the H5 client idle, the UI starts to spin and fails to display requested info. The following error starts to appear constantly: “The query execution timed out because of a back-end data adapter 'com.vmware.vise.data.adapters.core.DataServiceCoreAdapter'”. This bug is fixed in this release and the time out error should no longer appear.

Known Issues

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

Fling appliances pointed to vCenter 6.5 seems to have timeout issues. These issues are being investigated and are not related to fling itself. In some cases, restart the Fling Appliance could solve this problem

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

Fling 3.23 - Build 6682372

New Features

Download folder from the File Browser

Improvements

DRS groups can be filtered by member.

Replication group are shown on the VM Storage Policy portlet

Known Issues

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

Fling 3.22 - Build 6613965

New Features

The list of software packages installed on a host can be viewed (for ESXi version 6.5)

Edit Video Card information for a VM

Bug Fixes

Fixed few bugs related to snapshots

Known Issues

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

Cluster > Monitor > vSphere HA > Heartbeat now displays the actual set of datastores used by HA (used to display only the user-configured datastores)

Known Issues

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

Monitoring DRS memory utilization for clusters allows switching between active and consumed memory for the charts

Updated UI of the compatibility issues dialog in the migrate wizard - ability to sort the compatibility by VM, host or compatibility issue

Bug Fixes

The list of physical network adapters didn’t render correctly for some ESX hosts and an error message was appearing on the top of the page

Setting the DRS advanced option “PercentIdleMBInMemDemand” through the advanced settings now works for any value

Known Issues

If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.

If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.

If you see this error when you click on the VM - "Could not fetch query binding: com.vmware.vsphere.client.clusterui.model.services.VmFailureResponsesData
cause: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not fetch query binding: com.vmware.vsphere.client.clusterui.model.services.VmVmcpSupportData", collaps the HA portlet in the VM summary. We are working on fixing this.

Fling 3.18 - Build 6163115

Improvements

Upgrade distributed switch wizard now supports the upgrade of LACP to Enhanced mode and the upgrade of Network I/O Control to version 3.

View settings of link aggregation groups on a distributed switch

Fling 3.17 - Build 6088028

New Features

Create VM Storage Policy (limited)

Migrate Host Networking to a Distributed Switch

Configure default gateway address on VMkernel adapters (ESX 6.5 only)

Network I/O Control v3 - configure shares, reservation and limit for the different types of system traffic

The Modified date column on ‘Customize Guest OS’ page of Clone/Deploy VM wizards is now sorted correctly (by year first).

Known Issues

Sometimes when creating or cloning VM/template, the compatibility check on 'Select compute resource' page might take longer than expected. You can click anywhere on the wizard page at that moment, to trigger faster completion of the validation.

Fling 3.13 - Build 5476635

New Features

VDRS and SDRS overrides can be configured

Fault tolerance configuration for VMs

Cross vCenter Server vMotion

Improvements

ESXi version field can be chosen in host lists (not displayed by default).

Fling appliance build number is visible in Help -> About VMware vSphere

Fix the vmotion of multiple VM to another cluster - show the proper error message

When creating or cloning VM on non-English locales, there are no longer errors when you land on Customize Hardware page. The issue with invalid default value for the hard disk Limit-IOPs has been resolved

Fixed an error on VM Summary when the user doesn’t have privileges to view VM Storage Policies

Fling 3.10 - Build 5267018

New Features

Add an existing harddisk(vmdk) as a new disk for a VM

Change the default storage policy action

Performance charts can be exported to images and CSV

Bug fixes

Drag and drop VMs to resource pool or vApp when connected to 6.0 VC

Workaround for failure to login to FAMI UI (https://<h5-client-appliance-address>/5490) is given here - Bug#158

Known Issues

Popout performance charts don’t work in version 3.10

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 3.9 - Build 5234189

New Features

Advanced performance charts: objects and counters can be selected

Turn On/Off disk LED for Host Storage Devices

Mark disk as Remote/Local action from Host Storage Device view

Monitoring the Storage Providers for VVol Datastores

Migrate VMs from one Network to another

Edit NetFlow settings on a Distributed Switch

Content Library (read only view of libraries, templates and other types)

Delete a Content Library

Create a Subscribed Library on the content library page

Bug fixes

Issue with utilization graphs for guest memory overflowing is resolved

You can now successfully register VM on resource pool or vApp, when connected to 6.0 VC

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 3.8 - Build 5204615

New Features

Erase device’s partitions action from Host Storage Devices view

Mark as Flash/HDD disk actions from Host Storage Devices view

Create new NFS4.1 datastore with Kerberos authentication

Protocol endpoints for hosts and datastores

Edit TCP/IP Stack Configuration

VM Customization Specifications view under 'Policies and Profiles'

Bug fixes

“New datastore” action is now available from host’s context menu.

We now display the correct gateway address for VMkernel adapters for which the default gateway is overridden.

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 3.7 - Build 5168275

New Features

vSphere Client (HTML5) application went through a series of upgrades in this Fling starting from using latest Angular Javascript framework (Angular 4) to latest Clarity. There will likely be many minor changes in appearance (spacing, text, etc), but if you see any that are issues, please report any such anomalies using the Feedback tool (please include the tag “#DESIGN:” at the front of your comment)

Create new VVol datastore via “New datastore” wizard

Unmount VVol datastore from hosts

Move files and folders between datastores in datastore file browser

Known Issues

“New datastore” action is missing from host’s context menu. The action can still be invoked from host’s parent cluster or datacenter

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 3.6 - Build 5130996

New Features

RDM Disk can be added to a VM

Datastores can be moved between folders and datastore clusters

Datastore cluster connectivity to clusters view

Copy folders and files between datastores in datastore file browser

View the IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables for TCP/IP stacks

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue MAC address not shown completely in edit settings dialog

Known Issues

Moving a datastore to a datacenter through drag and drop doesn’t work

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 3.5 - Build 5109609

DARK THEME REMOVED: We may have jumped the gun releasing the dark theme last week. We really wanted to get this highly requested feature into your hands, but it turns out there are issues created with coming plans on our roadmap. In order to keep moving forward, we’ll have to remove the dark theme for a while. We’ll be looking for ways of adding it back in a fashion that will be futureproofed, but right now it’s hard to say how long that might be.

Dark theme has been removed as stated above. It will be reintroduced sometime in future

Help -> About VMware vSphere will not reflect the build number of the installed vSphere Client (HTML5). You should login to FAMI (https://:5490) to look at the installed build number.

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 3.4 - Build 5070500

New Features

New Dark theme client! - You can now access the client with a dark theme by appending the URL with /?theme (ex: https://<fqdn-or-ip-address-of-client/ui/?theme). You can switch back to regular theme by removing the /?theme from the URL.

NOTE: As this is an experimental feature, hence some places of the application might not be themed appropriately (like Dashboard page in Home). If you have feedback for us regarding the new theme (like, dislike, improvement requests), please submit using the Feedback tool with “THEME:” in the text area.

Download multiple files as a zip from the Files Browser (Available only in vSphere Client(HTML5))

Check VM Storage Policy compliance

Reapply Storage Policy of a VM

Host profile customizations for a host can be reset

Storage DRS rules can be added and removed

Move VM template(s) to VM folder

Improvements

Advanced performance charts for disk usage now display the user-friendly device name in the legend.

Register VM from the Actions menu of a datastore

Validations for invalid selections in Register VM wizard

Bug Fixes

Hosts are now listed on 'Select compute resource' page of Migrate wizard when connected to 6.0 VC

Fixed issue with limiting 97 GB RAM

Known Issues

Dashboard page will not show dark theme when you switch themes

Help -> About VMware vSphere will not reflect the build number of the installed vSphere Client (HTML5). You should login to FAMI (https://:5490) to look at the installed build number.

Release Notes

You do not need to edit any files to enable the features as described in known issues of fling ver 3.0. When you upgrade to ver 3.1, all the features should work

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

Deleting Tags/Categories will not show additional details in the confirmation dialog

Release Notes

You do not need to edit any files to enable the features as described in known issues of fling ver 3.0. When you upgrade to ver 3.1, all the features should work

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

Unmount Datastore Warning appears when the HA heartbeat is going to be affected by the operation. It appears only when the datastore is going to be removed from all of the hosts in a HA Cluster (only in vSphere Client)

Deleting Tags/Categories will not show additional details in the confirmation dialog

Release Notes

You do not need to edit any files to enable the features as described in known issues of fling ver 3.0. When you upgrade to ver 3.1, all the features should work

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

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Fling 3.1 - Build 4979752

New Features

Cluster > Monitor > Storage Overview (only in vSphere Client).
It gives the aggregated storage overview of the hosts in a cluster. There it is easy to find if a host deviates from the standard configuration for that cluster.

Host Cache Configuration read-only view

Storage DRS runtime and advanced settings can be configured

Drag and drop a VM to datacenter

Drag and drop a VM template to VM folder or datacenter

Drag and drop of a VM/template works from a list in the central workspace to the inventory tree

The New VM wizard provides an additional option to clone an existing VM

Can assign custom storage policy when cloning VM

Delete SCSI controller from VM if it is not in use by any devices

Known Issues

Deleting Tags/Categories will not show additional details in the confirmation dialog

Release Notes

You do not need to edit any files to enable the features as described in known issues of fling ver 3.0. When you upgrade to ver 3.1, all the features should work

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 3.0 - Build 4906185

New Features

Deploy VM from OVF template (Basic) - Deploy VM on a Host using OVF template URL for a vCenter 6.5 only

Deploy VM from template in content library (Basic) - Deploy a VM from a template in content library. There is a change to invoke this workflow, Right click on Host (or cluster or folder) and select “New Virtual Machine…”, then select “Deploy from Template”. This works against vCenter 6.0 and 6.5

Edit Settings of a Standard Switch

Edit IPv4 settings for Hardware iSCSI

Drag and drop a VM to VM folder in the 'VMs and Templates' inventory tree

Improvements

Reserve all guest memory in VM edit settings

Roles can be created with editable role name

Known Issues

If you don't see Deploy OVF template and Deploy from template in New Virtual Machine wizard, please enable these features by following steps below:

Deploy OVF only works for vCenter 6.5 due to removal of dependency on Client Integration Plugin from vSphere Client (HTML5). For now, you can only deploy OVF on a host and by only using OVF URL. Also, advanced customizations are not available in the wizard yet.

If you have ad blockers installed and enabled on the browser, you might notice some issues with the live refresh feature of the vSphere Client (HTML5) application. Disabling the ad blockers and refresh of the browser will resolve the issues.

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 2.20 - Build 4875797

New Features

‘New Distributed Port Group’ wizard

Support for VMFS6 datastore creation through New Datastore wizard

Support for adding Software FCoE adapter

Rescan/Unregister Storage Provider action

Refresh Storage Provider's certificate action

Network Settings for Hardware iSCSI adapter

Create new global role (takes a default role name)

Improvements

Storage Devices’ lists now contain Datastore column showing the Datastore which consumes the device (available only in the new vSphere Client)

Bug Fixes

A user who is not vCenter Administrator (Ex - Host administrator or datacenter administrator) can edit the VM

Known Issues

Currently the ‘New Distributed Port Group’ wizard can be invoked only from the actions menu of a datacenter or the VC. We’re working on enabling it at Distributed Switch level as well.

New roles created will take a default name of Role-name-time-when-role-got-created, till role name field is added.

If you have ad blockers installed and enabled on the browser, you might notice some issues with the live refresh feature of the vSphere Client (HTML5) application. Disabling the ad blockers and refresh of the browser will resolve the issues.

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 2.19 - Build 4810256

New Features

New Dashboard style page! Now, navigation to the “Home Menu -> Home” page launches an experimental dashboard feature with some common administrative metrics. At a glance, a user can get high level statistics about vCenter capacity resources, top alerts, and more. This offering presents quick and informative statistics in an easy to use visual format.
NOTE: As this is an experimental feature, live refresh of the data is not enabled, you can refresh the data in the dashboard by clicking on the global refresh icon inside the vSphere Client (HTML5) application. Also, the old Home screen is now moved to “Home Menu -> Shortcuts” in case you still need it.
If you have feedback for us regarding the new dashboard (like, dislike, improvement requests, want the old Home brought back), please submit using the Feedback tool with “DASHBOARD:” in the text area. Note, that due to some quirks right now with the Feedback tool, taking a screenshot on this view will only show the Dashboard central area and not the lefthand side or tasks. This is expected.

Host profile compliance data can be seen for hosts and clusters.

SDRS automation settings can be configured.

Edit settings of a Distributed Switch

New Storage Provider action

Disable Software iSCSI/FCoE adapter action

Edit iSCSI name and alias action

Edit the Space Reclamation configuration action

Rename Storage Device action

Improvements

Added VLAN ID, VMs, and a few other columns to the Distributed Port Groups list

List multiple VMs in the 'Power On Failures' dialog

When you create or clone a VM/template on a datastore cluster and you open the 'Datastore Recommendations' dialog on 'Ready to complete' page, your last selection is preserved

The Memory reservation values on 'Customize hardware' page are preserved, when navigating back and forth in the VM provisioning wizards

The Power options in a VM's Actions menu are now fully visible on Internet Explorer 11

You can now create new VM on a host/cluster without standard networks. Previously there was error "Cannot read property 'displayName' of undefined" on 'Ready to complete' page in this case.

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

When you create or clone a VM/template on a datastore cluster, you can view faults generated by SDRS for the corresponding hard disks on 'Ready to complete' page

When you create or clone a VM/template, you can view the full hard disk details on 'Ready to complete' page

Unify the look and feel of VM power operations dialogs

Known Issues

You might see error "Cannot read property 'objRef' of undefined" related to live refresh of the inventory tree, e.g. when converting VM to template

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

Fixed the issue with Drag and Drop of a host to a non-DRS enabled cluster./li>

Release Notes

Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

Update to fling v2.5 from a previous version will not show the HTML5 web client version number in FAMI UI. We are working on fixing this, till then, you can ssh to the appliance and run below command to display the right version number.

#/etc/init.d/configui stop

#/etc/init.d/configui start

Release Notes

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details

Fling 2.6 - Build 4410038

Improvements

Details view for the available paths for Host Storage device

VM and Host groups can be created and edited

VM/Host rules can be viewed

Host firewall settings can be edited

VM swap/host system swap locations can be changed

Improvements

Host advanced settings can be filtered during editing

Resource settings for resource pools/vApps can be managed

Remove folders from inventory

Bug fixes

Issue with persistence of the shares changes in the edit settings VM is fixed

Known Issues

Update to fling v2.5 from a previous version will not show the HTML5 web client version number in FAMI UI. We are working on fixing this, till then, you can ssh to the appliance and run below command to display the right version number.

#/etc/init.d/configui stop

#/etc/init.d/configui start

Release Notes

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

Update to fling v2.5 from a previous version will not show the HTML5 web client version number in FAMI UI. We are working on fixing this, till then, you can ssh to the appliance and run below command to display the right version number.

#/etc/init.d/configui stop

#/etc/init.d/configui start

Release Notes

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

Changing the value of the first advanced DRS option no longer duplicates it.

Fixed fling versioning number mismatches

Known Issues

Snapshot tree does not update itself when revert to, delete and delete all operations are invoked from the manage snapshot. You have to close the manage snapshot and open it again to see the updated tree.

Rendering glitch on the cluster’s HA failures and responses table

Release Notes

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

The “Manage” tabs of inventory objects are renamed to “Configure” and all the second level tabs are moved to the table of contents.

Disable storage DRS when selecting a Datastore Cluster as storage resource while creating a VM from scratch

Bug Fixes

Fix to show VM storage policies in VM configuration

Configuring new HTML5 appliance with VC was throwing “module.js error upon registering with Virtual Center” error. This issue is fixed.

Known Issues

Disabling DRS while cloning a VM is not available yet

Only simple use cases of customizing guest OS while cloning a VM are available right now (error cases not handled include: Windows customization resources not found on the server; Incompatible guest spec configuration)

Manage snapshots throws an error if invoked on a VM which has no snapshots.

Release Notes

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

Fling 1.3 - Build 3811445

Filenames (OVA and RPM) now reflect Fling version numbers as well as matching build numbers

More information about vApps on the inventory list

Bug Fixes

CD/DVD -> Datastore ISO filepicker is now working properly

Several unhandled JS exceptions

Bug fix for host power management settings

Known Issues

VM Storage Policy selection is broken in both the Create VM wizard and in the Edit VM Settings dialog. A VM will still get created with the Datastore Default policy in this case.

When selecting a datastore cluster as a storage resource when creating a VM, disabling DRS is not available yet.

Release Notes

After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.

Fling 1.2 - Build 3784316

New Features

Browse files in a Datastore ([Datastore] -> Manage -> Files)

Download a file from a Datastore

URL redirects: your old bookmarked URLs should now work, simplifying adoption of h5client. Exampleshttps://<h5client ip or domain name>/vsphere-clienthttps://<h5client ip or domain name>:9443/vsphere-clientShould now automatically redirect to the h5client standard:https://<ip or domain name>:9443/uiThis requires running step (5) above, the firewall.sh scriptRemove a CD/DVD drive/Network adapter/Hard disk from a new or existing VM

Improvements

Add devices to a VM from a single menu

Known Issues

The Feedback tool is currently inaccessible when Wizards/Dialogs are up. We will fix this in the next release.

If you deploy the OVA from scratch (or rerun the configuration) you may get a message like this: Configuration process completed! Type '/etc/init.d/vsphere-client start' to start the vSphere Client server. /etc/init.d/vsphere-client: line 307: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/scripts/configurator.js: Permission deniedYou can safely ignore this.

Fling Version 1.1

New Features

Add a new CD/DVD drive to a new or existing VM

Add a new network adapter to a new or existing VM

Add a new hard disk to a new or existing VM

Create a VM from a cluster

Migrate compute resource of a VM to a cluster and set vMotion priority

Change Agent VM settings for a Host

View Lockdown Mode in Security Profile settings of a host

View Certificate information for a host

Add a new cluster workflow (basic)

Remove a cluster

Improvements

Connect/disconnect a network adapter

Configure a network adapter when creating a new VM

Bug Fixes

Create a VM on a vApp or RP

Known Issues

Filters applied on Recent Tasks columns are wiped out when new tasks appear, due to the way new tasks refresh interacts with the filtering. We are working on this.

A fully supported version of the HTML5 client is released with vSphere 6.5, and the official name will be vSphere Client. We won't be renaming this Fling, but may start saying things like 'vSphere Client Fling' in addition to the other terms we've used before. Fling features are not guaranteed to be implemented into the product.

A fully supported version of the HTML5 client is released with vSphere 6.5, and the official name will be vSphere Client. We won't be renaming this Fling, but may start saying things like 'vSphere Client Fling' in addition to the other terms we've used before. Fling features are not guaranteed to be implemented into the product.